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exhibition
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Jan-Mar 2020
the arts institute
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encounters CELLULOID PSYCHOLOGY SERIES
season
This ongoing series of screenings explores the mind and brain in cinema. Each event is
curated and introduced by a specialist in human behaviour, who will discuss how their
area of expertise can shed unexpected light on the psychological questions explored
in the film. Celluloid Psychology has been devised by Dr Alastair Smith, Associate
Professor of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, as an antidote to the usual
depictions of psychology on our screens.
featuring
Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema
Duel (1971) 27 Jan
Children of a Lesser God (1986) 24 Feb
The Invention of Lying (2009) 16 Mar
SLOW PAINTING COMMEMORATING MAYFLOWER 400
The Levinsky Gallery 24 Jan – 28 Mar As the last stop for the Mayflower before its epic voyage across the Atlantic,
Plymouth is placed firmly at the heart of the 400 year commemorations of the voyage.
Presented by Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery Touring, Slow Painting is an
This anniversary is marked by an ambitious cultural events programme, and this
exhibition of paintings that take their time, and invite us to do the same. Curated
season we also include a series of films, talks and a multi-media music premiere
by writer and critic Martin Herbert, the exhibition spans a myriad of styles and
performance to acknowledge this important event. Our two showcases explain
applications, from figuration to abstraction. It offers a counterbalance to an
a little more about what is planned and, in true Arts Institute style, we look back with
accelerating world, comprising works that illustrate the role of painting as a rewarding
a contemporary approach.
repository of time.
Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema
Featured artists include: Darren Almond, Athanasios Argianas, Michael Armitage,
Gareth Cadwallader, Varda Caivano, Lubaina Himid, Paul Housley, Merlin James, Smoke Signals (1998) 17 Feb
Allison Katz, Simon Ling, Lucy McKenzie, Mairead O'hEocha, Yelena Popova, Carol Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (2018) 9 Mar
Rhodes, Sherman Sam, Benjamin Senior, Michael Simpson, Tim Stoner, and Caragh Apollo 11 (2019) 23 Mar
Thuring.
Encounters and Ecologies series
The exhibition's associated programme takes a deep dive into the idea Joy Porter, Professor of Indigenous History, University of Hull 19 Mar
and application of ‘slow’ in music, education, psychology and sustainability.
Performance at Theatre Royal Plymouth
Associated programme: Some Call It Home 24 & 25 Mar
Bite size talks from the University of Plymouth
Dr Paul Warwick, Centre for Sustainable Futures Lead 29 Jan
Dr Robert Taub, Director of Music, The Arts Institute 12 Feb HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TALKS
Mary Costello, Exhibitions Coordinator, The Arts Institute 19 Feb The Historical Association is a national charity supporting the study and enjoyment
Dr Alastair Smith, Associate Professor in Psychology 26 Feb of history. The Plymouth branch has linked up with the History department of the
Dr Karen Wickett, Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Dr Joanna Haynes, University to deliver a joint programme of talks. The new year promises to deliver
Associate Professor in Education Studies 4 Mar some more outstanding, yet very different, talks. From the Holocaust, to the vote for
women, we conclude with the annual Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture taking
Guest speakers
us to the English Revolution.
Martin Herbert, writer, critic, and curator of Slow Painting 23 Jan
Amy Sackville, fiction writer 4 Feb
Guest speakers
Professor Martin Willis, Head of English, Communication and Philosophy, Dr Noemie Lopian, Holocaust educator,
Cardiff University 5 Mar and Derek Niemann, freelance writer and editor 30 Jan
Front cover image: Dr Mari Takayanagi, Senior Archivist, Parliamentary Archives 25 Feb
Screening at the Jill Craigie Cinema Allison Katz. AKGraph (All Is On), 2016 Michael Braddick, Professor of History, University of Sheffield 3 Mar
The Quince Tree Sun (1993) 3 Feb © the artist, 2019
Varda by Agnès (2019) 10 Feb Featured in the Slow Painting exhibition
2 3showcase
Curator’s notes Shaping the transatlantic Indigenous perspectives
From the very earliest settlement narratives Indigenous people of North America had a very
ENCOUNTERS AND ECOLOGIES: THE WORDS, WORLDS of colonial New England, the language of the different relationship to their landscape and
AND LEGACIES OF MAYFLOWER, 1620-2020 wilderness offered a potent and effective different ways of articulating that relationship.
mechanism through which to understand the As a largely oral culture, access to an archive
Dr Kathryn Gray, Associate Professor in Early American Literature,
powerful performances of religious renewal of of indigenous perspectives on the land demands
University of Plymouth
Puritan New Englanders. Many years before the a different kind of research and a different
Mayflower set sail, sixteenth-century English approach to the ways in which the past and
audiences read first-hand accounts of the flora legacies are constituted and examined.
and fauna of what quickly became known as the Perhaps because of these challenges,
New World. Devoid of any religious purpose, indigenous perspectives and traditions have
these earlier narratives were keen to describe often been side-lined in the larger narratives
and exploit the natural abundance which of early American literatures and cultures.
North American ecologies and environments
appeared to offer. In each case, for the European Commemorating Mayflower 400
traveller, trader and settler, the North American
landscape, and the language of that landscape, In curating the Encounters and Ecologies series
was instrumental in shaping the transatlantic I wanted to take the landscape, in all its material
networks and partnerships that emerged through and symbolic function, as a point of departure.
the seventeenth Century and beyond. Over the course of the anniversary year, this
series of talks and discussions will consider the
peoples and traditions that shaped, or were
shaped by, these changing patterns of human
interaction, exchange, science, trade, diplomacy,
disease, violence and loss.
Encounters and Ecologies series
A place of 'Wild and Savage Hue': The political
ecological legacies of the Mayflower Sailing
19 Mar
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DATE TIME EVENT VENUE 3 Mar 19:00 Talk THE CHRISTOPHER DURSTON MEMORIAL Theatre 2
29 Nov – Various Exhibition FUTURE HISTORY The Levinsky Gallery LECTURE: THE PEOPLE IN THE ENGLISH
11 Jan REVOLUTION
4 Mar 13:00 Bite size MOVING FROM THE DESK, CHATTING BY The Levinsky Gallery
23 Jan 19:00 Talk THE CURATOR’S INTRODUCTION The Levinsky Gallery
THE PHOTOCOPIER: SLOWER THINKING IN EVERYDAY
TO SLOW PAINTING
ACADEMIC PRACTICE
24 Jan – Various Exhibition SLOW PAINTING The Levinsky Gallery
5 Mar 19:00 Talk THE DARKER SIDE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY: SLEEP Theatre 2
28 Mar
AND ITS MEANINGS IN THE 19TH AND 21ST CENTURIES
27 Jan 19:00 Film DUEL (1971) Jill Craigie Cinema
9 Mar 19:00 Film AWAKE: A DREAM FROM STANDING ROCK (2018) Jill Craigie Cinema
29 Jan 13:00 Bite size SLOW KNOWLEDGE: THE PURSUIT OF The Levinsky Gallery
CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE 10 Mar 19:00 Talk ELITE ART, POPULISM AND THE FATE OF CRITICISM Theatre 2
WORLD
30 Jan 19:00 Talk SPEAKING ACROSS THE DIVIDE: GROWING Theatre 2 11 Mar 19:30 Performance JANE MASON: NIGHT FLYING The House
UP IN THE SHADOW OF THE HOLOCAUST
3 Feb 19:00 Film THE QUINCE TREE SUN (1993) Jill Craigie Cinema 14 Mar 19:30 Music UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH CHORAL SOCIETY Minster Church of St.
EDWARDIAN ENGLISH SONG Andrew
4 Feb 19:00 Fiction reading AMY SACKVILLE: PAINTER TO THE KING The Levinsky Gallery 16 Mar 19:00 Film THE INVENTION OF LYING (2009) Jill Craigie Cinema
17 Mar 19:00 Poetry reading TOM CHIVERS: POET AND PUBLISHER The Levinsky Gallery
10 Feb 19:00 Film VARDA BY AGNÈS (2019) Jill Craigie Cinema
19 Mar 19:00 Talk A PLACE OF 'WILD AND SAVAGE HUE': Theatre 2
12 Feb 13:00 Bite size MUSIC AND HOW IT GOES The Levinsky Gallery THE POLITICAL ECOLOGICAL LEGACIES OF
THE MAYFLOWER SAILING
23 Mar 19:00 Film APOLLO 11 (2019) Jill Craigie Cinema
14 Feb 19:30 Performance EDEN’S CAVE THEATRE COMPANY: The House
FORESTS
24 & 25 19:30 Music SOME CALL IT HOME Theatre Royal Plymouth
17 Feb 19:00 Film SMOKE SIGNALS (1998) Jill Craigie Cinema
Mar
26 Mar 20:00 Music UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH ORCHESTRA Davy Main Hall
19 Feb 13:00 Bite size SLOW PAINTING AND SLOW LOOKING The Levinsky Gallery
SPRING CONCERT
24 Feb 19:00 Film CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD (1986) Jill Craigie Cinema
25 Feb 19:00 Talk PARLIAMENT, WOMEN AND THE VOTE Theatre 2
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26 Feb 13:00 Bite size PSYCHOLOGY AND ART The Levinsky Gallery
Please note: All programme details are correct at the time of going to print. The Arts Institute reserves the rights
to change the programme without prior notice, please refer to the website for up-to-date information.
6 7season guests
This season welcomes a fantastic selection of TOM CHIVERS
artists and academics. Here, we introduce just Tom Chivers is a British writer, publisher and arts producer. His writing includes two
a few... pamphlets of poetry, The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael
Marks Award) and Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2012), and two full collections, Dark
Islands (Test Centre, 2015), and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), the latter
winning the Crashaw Prize and shortlisted for the London New Poets Award.
MARTIN HERBERT His work has been anthologised in Dear World & Everything In It (Bloodaxe Books,
Martin Herbert is a writer and critic living in Tunbridge Wells, UK, and Berlin. 2013), and London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012). He is the director
of the much acclaimed press, Penned in the Margins, and was the co-director of
He is associate editor of ArtReview and a regular contributor to Artforum, frieze, and Art
London Word Festival from 2007 to 2011. His non-fiction debut, London Clay: Journeys
Monthly, and has lectured in art schools internationally. His monograph Mark Wallinger,
in the Deep City, will be published by Transworld in 2021.
a comprehensive study of the British artist’s career, was published by Thames &
Hudson in 2011. Other books include The Uncertainty Principle (2014, Sternberg Press), “Chivers’ writing feels refreshing and necessary, a genuine, lyrical appraisal
Tell Them I Said No (2016, Sternberg Press), and Unfold This Moment (forthcoming, of contemporary life” Luke Kennard, Poetry London.
Sternberg Press). Poetry reading: Tom Chivers: Poet and Publisher 17 Mar
His curatorial project Slow Painting opened at Leeds City Art Gallery in October 2019,
before showing here in Plymouth at The Levinsky Gallery.
DEBORAH YORK
Talk: The curator's introduction to Slow Painting 23 Jan
Slow Painting exhibition Deborah York is an award-winning classical soprano in concert and opera, teacher and
conductor living in Berlin. Her operatic career began with Mozart, singing Servilia for
Glyndebourne Touring Opera and Barbarina at Covent Garden under Bernard Haitink.
AMY SACKVILLE She then sang Donizetti at Covent Garden and for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera she
premiered the role of Mirror in Harrison Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong.
Amy Sackville is a British award-winning writer and a teacher of creative writing at
the University of Kent. Her most recent book, Painter to the King, was published by She has appeared regularly at the Berlin State Opera and Bavarian State Opera. Her
Granta Books in 2018. Described by The London Magazine as ‘an immersive blend portrait of Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress, recorded for Deutsche
of art history, sensory detail, and spatial exploration’, it is the story of painter Diego Grammophon with the London Symphony Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner, won
Velázquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his death, 38 years a Grammy Award. Her recording of Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream with
and scores of paintings later. Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic, The Last Concert, won the International
Classical Music Award best orchestral category 2017.
Amy’s debut novel, The Still Point, published by Portobello Books in 2010, won the
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize that year and was nominated for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Deborah will join Grammy-nominated baritone Randall Scarlata, as well as musicians
Her second book, Orkney, published by Granta Books in 2013 won a Somerset from the Bournemouth Symphony orchestra, in the new multimedia music drama
Maugham Award. Some Call It Home.
In June 2018, she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its ‘40 Under 40’ Music: Some Call It Home 24 & 25 Mar
initiative. Commemorating Mayflower 400
Fiction reading: Painter to the King 4 Feb
Slow Painting exhibition
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Director’s notes
SOME CALL IT HOME
Dr Robert Taub, Director of Music, The Arts Institute
Here’s something new: a direct and passionate stage work of performance art
that combines music, hard-hitting quotes about our destiny from major historical
figures over the last 400 years, and striking visual projections, all focused on the
most fundamental drama of all – our fraught relationship with our home, our planet.
Multi-media music piece "Why are people risking their
After their treacherous Atlantic crossing, how lives today being smuggled
did the Pilgrims' leader react to reaching land? across deserts?"
200 years later with the burgeoning westward
expansion of the young America, whose destiny
was “manifest”? 100 years after that, what was the
Premiere performances
reaction of those who witnessed a new, never- For the premiere performances in Theatre Royal
imagined power New Mexico? And why are people Plymouth on 24 and 25 March 2020, we’re bringing
risking their lives today being smuggled across in two star performers – the Grammy award-
deserts? These are some of the questions that I winning English soprano Deborah York, and the
asked myself and taken together, they form the Grammy-nominated American baritone Randall
basis for Some Call It Home, a new multi-media Scarlata – to collaborate with a special ensemble
music piece that I’m creating, producing, and of nine musicians from the Bournemouth
directing. Symphony Orchestra led by Mark Forkgen,
For this unique challenge, I’ve commissioned two conductor. And I’m working with the wonderful
leading composers: Jane O’Leary in Galway Ireland, production team at TRP for all the dramatic visual
and Jonathan Dawe in New York City. I’ve played projections.
works by each of them in the past, and have chosen With the global conversation on climate change
2020
them because they are great composers whose reaching new levels of intensity, here is a newly
styles contrast and complement one another. created work of art emerging from Mayflower 400
that addresses these issues head-on. Feel the
drama, experience the past as never before, and
"How did the Pilgrims' leader maybe emerge with an idea of what good we can
react to reaching land?" all do for our future!
Performances at Theatre Royal Plymouth Supported by:
Some Call It Home 24 & 25 Mar
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